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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The speaker describes children moving beneath smoke from a harvested field, a hunter keeping whiskey breath from rabbits, and a salvage worker who prizes closed factories and shambles.
The speaker contrasts the children's laughter with a modern dance of death before turning to hunting and industrial salvage. Corrected stanza spacing separates those scenes. Faint duplicated type limits the exact reading of the smoke image.
A typed poem in three stanzas: field fire that 'makes nucular clond', children who move 'under the smoke' in 'an ancient rite', a night hunter whose whiskey breath is kept 'From kissing rabits in the ditch tonight.', and the 'Mad salvage-man of the junk yard plains' who loves 'closed factories in his vision / Of shambles'.
The poem builds a gallery of rural figures with mythic titles; nucular clond is kept as typed and stays provisional.